Children's Literature and Culture Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child: Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child, (Hardcover)

By examining some of Dickens's works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era, contending that the Victorian child can still be found in popular literatures read by children contemporarily.